Margin Call

December 28, 2011

Dir. J.C. Chandor (2011).
Relive the financial collapse of ’08 from the perspective of a Lehman Brothers-type investment bank. The action confined largely to the upper floors of a Wall Street skyscraper, this high-powered, all-star indie is part early ‘30s topical drama, part late ‘40s noir.

"More than any other contemporary African-American athlete, his ability to thrive in the pressure cooker of corporate America, while never making any embarrass­ing 'I’m not black, I’m universal' comments or selling his soul rather than just his visage, makes him a role model"

“Though his work for human rights is unassailable, the books grow worse and worse, the tales of his derring-do more and more farfetched. Finally, without at all forgiving him his lies, one feels sorry for Kosinski.”